Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Koichi Okada

Shinichi Fumuro

Tsuyoshi Yuasa

Takeshi Kojima

Nobuo Iwai

A blood pressure monitor is provided with a box-shaped housing having openings formed in left and right side walls, a cuff transversely arranged in the housing and including an arm entrance and an arm exit at the opposite left and right ends corresponding to the openings. The cuff is formed with a blood flow blocking bag in a specified area. The opposite ends of the cuff is taken up by a cuff take-up drum such that the blood flow blocking bag extends along the outer circumferential surface of the inserted arm at the time of a measurement and a compressed air is supplied to the blood flow blocking bag to block the blood flow. The blood pressure monitor is further provided with at least one of a fastening force adjusting construction for adjusting a force of the cuff to evenly fasten the arm or the like of the measurer, a construction for preventing the epidermis part of the arm from getting in the cuff, a construction for suppressing the consumption of an electric power, and a construction for fixing a measuring position.

Blood pressure monitor

To facilitate carrying by making a sphygmomanometer combining a blood-constricting cuff band with a sphygmomanometer unit thin and compact when not engaged in measurement, a sphygmomanometer combines blood-constricting cuff bandwith sphygmomanometer unit, and constitutes a structure that can be switched between measurement position (I) with sphygmomanometer unitoverlapping blood-constricting cuff bandand storage position (II) with blood-constricting cuff bandand sphygmomanometer unitplaced side by side.

Sphygmomanometer and sphygmomanometer storage case

A self-diagnostic blood pressure measuring apparatus displays a diagnostic result for each of the measured systolic and diastolic pressures for warning to an user. The apparatus includes has a detector which measures systolic and diastolic pressures thereof, a display unit having first and second numeric indicators respectively for displaying individual numerical values of the measured systolic and diastolic pressures. A diagnosing circuit is included to compare the measured systolic and diastolic pressures respectively with predetermined systolic and diastolic reference ranges so as to provide a systolic warning when the systolic pressure is out of the systolic reference range and provide a diastolic warning when the diastolic pressure is out of the diastolic reference range. The display unit includes a warning display section which notify the systolic and diastolic warnings, individually. Thus, the systolic and diastolic warnings can be individually displayed together with the measured systolic and diastolic pressures appearing at the first and second numeric indicators, thereby providing detailed blood pressure information for immediate recognition by the user.

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Koichi Okada